They started meeting over the summer to kind of game out various scenarios for the November election. First of all, what was the basis of this claim?īAZELON: Right, so this is a concocted claim, and the sort of kernel at the center of it was a project called the Transition Integrity Project, a group of about a hundred academics and journalists and pollsters and former government officials and former campaign staffers. She joins us from her home in New Haven, Conn.Įmily Bazelon, welcome back to FRESH AIR.ĮMILY BAZELON: Thanks so much for having me.ĭAVIES: You open your piece with a story that began making the rounds some months back among right-wing voices on the Internet that there was a plan by the forces of Joe Biden to stage a coup to take over the government in connection with the November election. She's a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for creative writing at Yale Law School.
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In the cover story for this week's New York Times Magazine, Bazelon surveys the impact that lies and conspiracy theories, sometimes promoted by foreign actors, can have on our political discourse, and she explores how other countries think differently about free speech and its relationship to a healthy democracy.Įmily Bazelon is a graduate of the Yale Law School and a journalist. In an age when questionable, perhaps even fabricated, content can sweep through the digital world unchecked, does our traditional commitment to unfettered free speech still serve democracy? But the episode illustrates a question our guest, Emily Bazelon, has been thinking about. It reversed course two days later after Republicans accused Twitter of censorship. In a remarkable move, Twitter on Wednesday banned users from sharing links to the story because it said the emails may have been hacked and contained private information.
There were enough questions about the authenticity of the emails that most mainstream media declined to publish the story, but it's the kind of content that can spread like wildfire on social media. Last week, the New York Post published a potentially damaging story about Hunter Biden, son of the Democratic presidential nominee, based on emails the Post said were provided by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and originally harvested from a laptop computer left in a Delaware repair shop. I'm Dave Davies, in today for Terry Gross.
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